Bug#805979: ITP: bit-babbler -- BitBabbler hardware random number generator and kernel entropy source support

[Ron <ron@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Ron <ron@debian.org>

  Package name    : bit-babbler
  Version         : 0.3
  Upstream Author : Ron Lee <ron@debian.org>
  URL             : http://www.bitbabbler.org
  License         : GPL-2
  Programming Lang: C++, with some Perl for munin and example scripts
  Description     : BitBabbler hardware TRNG and kernel entropy source support

 This package provides supporting software for the BitBabbler true random
 number generator hardware.  It includes:

  - The seedd daemon for running continuous quality and health checks on
    the active devices and the stream of entropy that they provide, and
    for seeding the OS kernel entropy pool on demand.
  - Monitoring tools for short and long term analysis, and alerting of
    anomalies in both the BitBabbler output and the kernel /dev/random
    and /dev/urandom output.
  - Admin tools for real-time inspection of the short and long term
    quality metrics.

 You will need to install libjson-xs-perl if you wish to use the munin-node
 script for continuous graphing and monitoring of device performance.


We've got nearly a year of intensive testing of these devices under our
belt now, and a large number of them already out in the wild with other
users, including researchers, and so far nothing we or anyone else has
thrown at them has seemed to be able to shake out a weakness that we
still need to give more immediate attention to.  The software interface
is stable and we've run out of immediate wishlist things that people
want added to it too.  So it seems like a good time now to actually get
it into the distro so people don't need to keep building their own
packages of it locally.

(For those who've kept nudging us to do that sooner, thanks for your
patience while we made sure everything we could Was Right first! ;)

  Enjoy,
  Ron